Target OS: Mac OSX Big Sur 11.6
To Build the App:
1. Download the ZIP file 2. Decompress the .zip file and
open the Application.
To Build the Chunity Asset:
1. Download the ZIP file for the Chunity Asset.
2. Decompress the .zip file.
3. In a Unity URP (Universal Render Pipeline) Project, click
Assets -> Import Asset -> Custom Package and then select
the decompressed .unity file.
I modeled my visualizer after an electrocardiogram (ECG). Studying both
premed and music, I often find myself straddled between two worlds.
However, I found that this project gave me an opportunity to attempt to
"sonify" medicine. I wanted to create a visualizer which could,
yes, create music in the same way a MIDI synthesizer can, but which also
could take pre existing models and biodata and "sonify" it.
Being brutally honest, I did not enjoy starting this project. I
constantly felt like I knew enough to do something, but
NOT enough to do what I wanted. I found the disconnect between C#
scripting and ChucK code very confusing at first. In fact, I rewrote my
code several times in order to better understand how everything was
connected. However, just like with most projects, there came a time when
it suddenly "clicked". My creative freedom was able to take charge and I
was no longer hindered by trivial tasks such as figuring out how a
button works. I found myself spending more time attending to my strength
of coding as opposed to being frustrated by my weakness of not being
able to 3D model. Once I fully grasped the interaction between Unit and
ChucK via global variables, I found that my workflow
between building a graphical interface and driving it via a ChucK script
to actually become fun. I do, however, wish we had more time. I felt
like just as I had "cracked" this assignment, it was due. As I am
handing it in, my mind is flooding with possibilities of feature I wish
I had added – I will hold onto those possibilities for the final
project.
I did not use any pre-existing assets.